2026 NBA Finals

By Alisha Ayat. Updated November 14, 2026.

2026 NBA Finals Results: Game by Game

The Spurs held home-court advantage as the No. 2 seed in the West, but the Knicks won both games in San Antonio to open the series. New York lost only Game 3 at Madison Square Garden.

Game	Site	Result	Series
Game 1 (June 3)	San Antonio	Knicks 105, Spurs 95	Knicks lead 1-0
Game 2	San Antonio	Knicks 105, Spurs 104	Knicks lead 2-0
Game 3	New York	Spurs 115, Knicks 111	Knicks lead 2-1
Game 4	New York	Knicks 107, Spurs 106	Knicks lead 3-1
Game 5 (June 13)	San Antonio	Knicks 94, Spurs 90	Knicks win 4-1

Scores checked against NBA.com and ESPN on November 14, 2026.

How Did the Knicks Win Game 5?

Jalen Brunson scored 45 points in the 94-90 clincher, a Knicks record for a Finals game. He scored 29 of them after halftime and 15 in the fourth quarter.

San Antonio led by double digits midway through the fourth. Brunson scored 10 straight Knicks points to tie the game, then hit a 12-foot jumper with 1:05 left for a lead New York never gave back. The rest of the Knicks shot 17 for 60.

Brunson became the fourth player with 45 or more points in a Finals closeout game, joining Bob Pettit, Michael Jordan and Giannis Antetokounmpo. All 11 media voters picked him as Finals MVP.

Why Were the 2026 NBA Finals So Close?

Four of the five games were decided by 4 points or fewer. NBA.com called it possibly the best five-game Finals in 30 years of play-by-play data.

• Every game was within 5 points in the last 5 minutes, a first for any Finals in that span.
• The Spurs won the first quarter of all five games, by a combined 57 points.
• In Game 4 the Knicks came back from 29 points down, and OG Anunoby’s tip-in won it.
• Brunson scored 22 clutch points, the most in a Finals since Dirk Nowitzki’s 26 in 2011.

How Did the Knicks Reach the 2026 NBA Finals?

New York entered the playoffs as the No. 3 seed in the East and went 16-3, winning 15 of its last 16 games. The Spurs reached the Finals by beating the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder in seven games.

Round	Knicks (East No. 3)	Spurs (West No. 2)
First round	Beat Hawks 4-2	Beat Trail Blazers 4-1
Conference semifinals	Beat 76ers 4-0	Beat Timberwolves 4-2
Conference finals	Beat Cavaliers 4-0	Beat Thunder 4-3

What Did the 2026 Title Mean for the Knicks?

It ended a 53-year wait. The Knicks last won in 1973, and this was their third championship after 1970 and 1973. Under coach Mike Brown, they also became the first team to win both the NBA Cup and the NBA championship in the same season, after beating the Spurs in the Cup final in December 2025.

For San Antonio, the loss came against a young core led by Victor Wembanyama and rookie Dylan Harper, who scored 25 in Game 5. Read the NBA.com Game 5 recap for the full box score.